Quotes of: Natural-science Keyword

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Lewis Thomas

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature...

Paul Berg

Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so nat...

The Iron King

If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can be demonstrated to others, then the plant-medicine traditions of the Amazon as they have been practiced constitute an authentic scien...

Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end...

Nikola Tesla

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Robert Delaunay

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Quicksilver

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

Bill Richardson

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Stephen Hawking

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society, and the diversion of men's thoughts from s...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Robert Barclay

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate...Hydrogen bombs will not produce themselves.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

Serge Haroche